A believer in heaven and/or hell who is true in their belief would NOT
risk eternity in hell to lie, curse their god, cheat, HATE, or kill…

I would agree with this except for the ol’ get-out-of-jail-free card: “forgiveness”. We can probably never know which of those who display the listed behaviors do so because they are really n…[Read more]

It simply amazes me that anyone follows these ridiculous rules. I took a look around the linked web site and found one instance of breathtaking made-up idiocy after another. These are perhaps best represented by this:Wait required after bowel movement?

When I was majoring in chemistry in the early 1970s, I took 2 years of German because I was advised one couldn’t do chemistry without it. I seem to have been misinformed. But I did find what a beautiful spoken language it is, and I learned more about English grammar by studying German than I ever learned in English class!

6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are:
for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of
the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They
have their reward.

@3… That’s why I like that site: it shows those (insert worst possible expletive here) for what they are. Ridicule is a powerful weapon. What’s depressing to me is not the web site itself, but that there are ostensibly intelligent people who hold those views.

I always thought it wasn’t very nice of Jesus to curse the fig tree for not having any fruit because “…the time of figs was not yet.”* But according to this article (in the 5th paragraph), fig trees produce fruit year-round to accommodate the wasps that pollinate the flowers. So… were the wasps to blame? Had someone else harvested all the…[Read more]

Also, FWIW, flossing is not mainly for removing food bits from between the teeth, though that is certainly one of its uses. It is primarily to remove placque, a bacterial biofilm that forms on all tooth surfaces that are not subjected to abrasion. That is why, somewhat counter-intuitively, even the backs of the last teeth in the arch must be…[Read more]

Jefferson’s suggestion that we question God’s existence because it is
reasonable to do so and that God, if there is one, would prefer that
we be reasonable rather than superstitious (driven by blind fear)
makes no sense whatsoever.